Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film
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Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film

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Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film

About this book

This open access book defines the cinematic Gothic as an aesthetics of memory and exile. Guided by three intersecting concepts – memory, travelling, and touch – it suggests that the cross-border movements of exiles, Ă©migrĂ©s, and professional travellers had a crucial impact on the emergence, development, and dissemination of the Gothic. This approach expands the canon to overlooked films, filmmakers, and national traditions. Drawing on film, memory, and gothic studies, the book urges the reader to think across other disciplines, including phenomenology, neurology, cognitive neuroscience, anddisability studies. From hands to pianos, accordions, gloves, amnesia, and wounded bodies, the volume proposes a reappraisal of the Gothic by redrawing its scope, retracing its origins, and refocusing attention on surfaces as sites of socio-political meaning.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. Introduction: The Gothic Aesthetic
  4. 2. Memory as Personal History: ÉmigrĂ©s, Exiles, and Professional Travellers
  5. 3. Memory-Objects and Journeys of Re-collection
  6. 4. Memory as Touch: The Hand, Amputation, and Sensory Contagion
  7. 5. Tactile Travelling, Manual Space, and the Duality of Gothic Hands
  8. 6. Pathological Journeys, Gloves, and ‘Affect-Logic’
  9. 7. Amnesia and Oblivion
  10. 8. The Gothic Piano: Elegy to an Absence
  11. 9. Conclusion: Routes of Re-membering
  12. Back Matter